The Leaders’ Debate: Sunak V Starmer
ITV hosted the first televised debate of this general election campaign on Tuesday, seeing Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer go head to head prior to the launch of their manifestos…. Read more »
ELECTION TIME!
It’s on. It’s finally on. After however many years that we’ve all been screaming for one, it has finally, mercifully, come at last. Rishi Sunak, on a torrential May afternoon… Read more »
“Safety” of Rwanda: A Lie in Our Law
As has been set out clearly in this blog recently, and as anyone with a remote amount of sense can tell, Rishi Sunak’s five priorities are not going well. One… Read more »
April 13 Attack: Israel’s Choice
If you weren’t already nervous about the situation in the Middle East before, you should be now. Iran and Israel have each been filling the regional keg with gunpowder for… Read more »
UK Politics 2024: The Story So Far
Already 2024 is shaping up to become one of the most consequential years in recent British political history, and it isn’t even Spring yet. In these brief few weeks we… Read more »
Navalny Dead: The Hero Russia Needed
Russia has lost another part of its soul. Alexei Navalny, the leading figure of resistance against Vladimir Putin within Russia, has been proclaimed dead by the Russian state prison service,… Read more »
2024: The Year We Save the World?
Happy New Year! 2024 is shaping up to be a doozie. It will be a year of elections, with 50 countries going to the polls to select new leaders and… Read more »
Rwanda and Asylum: the Tory Death Knell?
It’s pretty fair to say that the current Conservative Government in the UK is not very popular. True, the past few Conservative Governments have also not been the most well-received,… Read more »
COP28: A Step Forward, Far Too Short
The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP28, was held this year in Dubai, between 30 November and 13 December. Holding a summit to address the climate crisis in the… Read more »
Post-Ceasefire: Waning Hope for Gaza
The war between Hamas and Israel drags on in the Gaza Strip, and inevitably, thousands more have died since my last entry on this blog. The death toll inside Gaza… Read more »